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THE SCREEN'S FAVOURITE ROMANTIC TEAM
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MAYTIME IN MAY
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Lovly TECHNICOLOR
"Distributed by Landen Filme
TO-MORROW-A THRILLING EPISODE OF LITHUANAN STRUGGLE AGAINST FASCISTS! "MARITE" an U.S.S. Production
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1949.
SEAT IN THE STALLS
Ida Lupino turns producer, makes
MALLY FORREST In Not Wanted.
her 'double' star
£40,000 SAVINGS USED FOR FILM
Thirty-one-year-old Ida among the 12 top box-offies hits Lupino, who left London at of the summer.
Producer ida has got
her
10 to seek and find fatae as Investment back-with diul- an actress in Hollywood, has become filmland's
now
dends.
youngest woman producer. moving performanco of 10-
the
Outstanding feature of "Not Wanted," as I saw it, is the
Her first Independent ven-
year-old Sally Forrest, but well-told leading role. ture a simple tear-jerker about an unmarried
STAR CONTRACT mother. entitled "Not
Ida Lupino picked her, an Wanted"-wan shown privately
unknown actress, because she in the West End.
Miss Lupino made this film resembled her own appearance in Hollywood on a bank loan, when she first arrived in Holly- plus
of nearly £40,000
her wood.
AR producer, Miss Lupino ravings.
She formed a company called seems to have done a Svengali Emerald Productions, after her
Not only in looks, but in per- mother, former London musical sonality, restures and dronintie comedy star, Connie Emerald.
power, the new girl in uneally By the time production was Pnished with increasing Dinan
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had Fial dißcules-she
left 10 advertise or money exploit it.
But the picture soon adver- fised itself, and it has now been officially Ilsted in America as
Hollywood will get its own way in Denham
Justin
Making
their exit from
of her Denham Stadion the
arek Mill week Richard Attenborough Their new film as finished. in for departure
Kent, after
a week-Jeani
the last shots on "The Re. hetant Widow."
Then Dentam, a
Fights fry
thistmas -not
holiday beginning
tig on.
American stars absurdly mis- most for British characters, as has Jeanetimes happened in the Also so long as our men
are alven fake shares of
along with thi een time transatlantic cousina.
Empty rooms
W will be the next tenants Real at of the star dressing-rooms »! before Denkar which have had much This y
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Olivier and
Granger. Jean
Stations?
JEANNE CRAIN
thesp
ARCH
Twi major Bruted States
foamrash te companies wil.
Term
Century re eves down
Thanh everything is still in I gather the perspecting stage. that Paramott and Twentieth |
running selective
lets of top contract stars-In case they are Wanted *The HIT good
Usts. cheerful compensation for the Denlium's future fact that should have fo rely on them at
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like the Ida Lapino of some 15
years ago.
FLASEBACK TO 3934
Ida Lupino 15 years nga.
Horse Laughs
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From DisneyJeanette
Say, did you ever notice As a result of this perform-how many horses gel into are, Sally Forrest has been Walt Disney pictures? An Kiven a star contract by Metro-expert rider, polo player and
Goldwyn-Mayer.
-London Express Service)
And the dressing-rooms
of British stars may be Olled with American volers
SHOW TALK
by HAROLD CONWAY
of the conndry
Their inries
will be paid from Hollywood. (Lendon Express Service)
WEEK-END
SCREEN FARE
The
HUA
QUEEN'S A
horse owner since boyhoodi, Walt has a special liking for the sons of Pegasus.
come
Ile puls them into his ani- mated fantasies as often ng OC- casion of the script permits, And, following the Inws and orders of caricature, they always although out comically,
In his nol always grotesquely. forthcoming RKO Radio Tech- nicolosir release, "Tho Adven- tures of Ichabod and Mr Tone" Walt enters three new sleeda in the cinema derby.
ness
Que is the famous plough- borne, Gunpowder, whose slow- sung afoot is hilarity and described by Bing Crosby. He carries Ichabod to a 11- starred rendezvous
the with for Katrina in the verle glen of Sleepy Hollow
SACK OF BONES Here is such a sack of bones and reluctance as has ever di
his mble breed. Matched against Gunpowder in sleet of tip the great black
paraged
Beadles Horseman, who TECLA to share his master's free joy In thisbert's cowering flight.
The third
in Cyril
The
of Mr
J- +3x
Potented by
equine Pain crusiera febru Toad whose exploits
Brust Rathbone. Other members of the Disney Up fable stable who come to mind ALHAMBRA) | tre the beautifully
Camer
ailugted tryin a little-known erenlures story by
tn
Marjorie Kin-that famous Jugend, Widow-
A re
COLOR BY
Technicolor
MacDONALD LASSIE
LLOYD NOLAN CLAUDE JARMAN, Jr.
Academy Award winner
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winged
"Fantasia"
and
Nothing ban
nothing
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toku
horses, il reeing that the only race any of them could win would be one for intaghs.
the płoc
of
on itawlings, pertups the beatmaker, who brought Pecos Bl
to arf in "Metody Time." She has written,
The original is the story of but while Disney has shown woman writer
quite an Interest living in
who In of Florida thu te part befriended by boy obsessed by the fact that though he is on dan he must have a mother
etits
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HERE COMES HAROLD LLOYD, JR.
here such na Gregory Peck farer about a frivolous heiress Harold Lloyd back in 1917
W
Paramount possibles Include Bob Hope Alan Ladd and via de Haviland rather more than
mewhere Barbara
slory MGM rings Into the Possibility Sinnwyck-1 should count her Juukary
Miss de Holl-Jeanette Mac Dunak, as ne ns "probabic
selectiun for the rol of the Innd would be most welcoine
05 author
Dne could February look fike being dara
hove biggest of all, after her Snake Pit tour
wished for but months mulded fox wur
it apparently tle forec
makes her a singer too. Amlit
That follows"
picture
A pair of cheap, horn- At Wh!
On Twentieth Century's shart nuch spevulation, my own juin
Test ade Loretta Young
Claude Jarnon, Jr plays rimmed and glassless specs Betty harn
art the bay and a pince has been | which nad their phecy as that early Spring will
fitable in Holly wound to Denhamn
Jeanne Crabs (A number ot found for Lassle.
pearance (231 117] aspiring Jon an Anglo American produc-
Their
front-rank other
stars That Wonderful Urge (ROXY
movie comedia a named tion basis
have Already Deen filming & BROADWAY) is romantic
reporter.will once more make a film Gene Tierney and Tyrone Pppearance With this company. I would power respectively. Though Madly settle for Jon-
am either of these two have done Her finely sensitive performance well by dramalie roles, they
Pky
of the unex-are much preferable in comedy preted acting triumphs of the and the aim is excellent enter- VIPU makes me wonder anew.
S:tainment. after Olivia de Havilland's fadden jump to brimnice. How many other actresses are there In Hollywood at present con- demned to chocolate-box roles but with first-rate arting talent enly awaiting the right I think the On thin polpl
and director? Hollywood compantes will get their own way.
I
How human
my in these 5th Century Fox
put by far the best of Holly
ptures, atad Paxaround,
who turn out the showr
In the wake of these cont Dames will come some of their top stars. Because Holly wood. arked by Me Earold Wilson to produce more films in England. will do so only if they can top the casts recruited here with a box-office suffener of American "names."
I have no quarrel with the poley so long as we don't have
Power mark and Gene Tierney
In
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But de me they will Taral be worn by Lloyd, They will be worn by Lloyd's 18-year-old son, Hurld, Jr. when he makes has sureca sebut in Samuel Goldwyn's "Beloved Over All" The Great Dictator (KING'S) Young Lloyd claims he will
a film that
the glasses only in tils showing every few years for Goldwyn film. The muly other
TO-DAY Chaplin hasume he will don this piece of the next century.
both the comic and property will be when he and captured horrifying aspects of two of the his father appear together in o dictators of our age. If you pletura.
The
1 CTP glassen have not seen the Alm before,
If you have, 11 several pairs Lloyd wore when One good point about the do not miss it. coming 1950 invasion the stars is entertaining enough for an- he first appeared in one-reelers
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